One recent morning, while contemplating writing this column, I scrolled through thousands and thousands of listings for mundane microgigs on Mechanical Turk, or...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 2, 2014
Last June, in an interview with Adam Bryant of The Times, Laszlo Bock, the senior vice president of people operations for Google—i.e., the guy in charge of hiring...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 24, 2014
Beleaguered gadgetmaker BlackBerry said on Monday that it's signed a tentative agreement to be purchased by a group led by Canadian holding company Fairfax Financial...Time From ACM Opinion | September 25, 2013
There is a scene in the television series "Boss" in which the mayor of Chicago, played by Kelsey Grammer, is discovered by his wife washing bed sheets by hand at...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | September 23, 2013
I am not a tech industry maven, so I am busy coming up to speed on the implications of the Ballmer resignation.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | August 26, 2013
A generation ago, when the stock market crashed on Oct. 19, 1987, the Nasdaq stock market appeared to have done much better than the New York Stock Exchange.The New York Times From ACM News | August 23, 2013
Ten years ago this week, Senator James M. Inhofe, the Republican from Oklahoma, used a two-hour floor speech to launch his campaign on the credibility of climate...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | August 2, 2013
A perversion of smartphone technology called "stalking apps"—precise, secretive trackings of the movements of cellphone users—is increasingly a matter of national...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | December 26, 2012
Citing the usual sources-who-shall-remain-nameless, Bloomberg reports what everyone's been assuming all year—that Microsoft's going to launch its next game system...Time From ACM Opinion | December 4, 2012
In late spring, the backroom number crunchers who powered Barack Obama's campaign to victory noticed that George Clooney had an almost gravitational tug on West...Time From ACM Opinion | November 7, 2012
If you are wondering who will be your cellphone provider next year, so are the cellphone companies.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | October 25, 2012
Over the years, Keith McCarthy has become used to a certain way of doing things on his personal computers, which, like most others on the planet, have long run...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | October 22, 2012